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...William Cowper's kindly beckoning, the readers of two centuries have lulled away many a peaceful evening-cheered, but never inebriated-at the mild brew of his poetry. Cowper (rhymes with hooper) is remembered fondly as a plump old country gentleman in a billowy cap; apt to giggle, but otherwise of a most pleasing conversation; delighted with his bed of pinks, devoted to his hares; the least pretentious and the most lovable of England's 18th Century poets...
...UNESCO Committee on Monuments, Historical and Archaeological sites has chosen John O. Brew, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology, as its Vice-Chairman. Brew, who is also director of the Peabody Museum, was elected at the recent week-long meeting of the committee in Paris...
...Brew stated that the committee intends to draft treaties designed to safeguard libraries, museums, and other historical sites in time of war. It will also provide for international regulation of archaeological excavations...
...best poem of Hall's that I have read. Another selection from Hall's winning entry in the Garrison contest, called "Afternoon," struck me as dull and stereotyped (the scene is an amusement park closed for the winter). Charles Neuhauser's "Seascape with Salvage Barge" is a rich brew of imagery, alliteration, and studied rhyming. It is easily the best poem in the issue, though I must own a weakness for Hall's "A Face in the Mirror." Lyon Phelps has a Garrison Honorable Mention, "In the Morning, After an Ice Storm," which is weakened by a self-consciously chatty...
Another traveler to Europe is John O. Brew, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology. Brew will go to Paris as an American delegate to a meeting of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization...